Word: wife
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delves into the lives of Willie and Susan's sensual son, Jimmy (who has recently separated from his wife), Tyrone's daughter, Laurie (whose husband has died from a drug overdose), and Tyrone himself, who lives the ritzy business executive's life in New York but makes frequent pilgrimages to the Cape...
...marsh grass around him and has an insight: "Only the spartinas thrived in the salt flood, shut themselves against the salt but drank the water. Smart grass. If he ever got his big boat built he might just call her Spartina, though he ought to call her after his wife...
...hand does not become clear until much later. Pierce's family once mattered in this region of Rhode Island, but not any longer. A succession of bad breaks has "squeezed him up Pierce Creek to an acre of scrub," where he lives in a ramshackle house with his wife May and two teenage sons and scrabbles a living as a fisherman. "He'd had a plan: by age 40 he would be master of a ship. Here he was at age 40-plus in an 18-foot skiff...
...Pierce raise the $10,000 or so required to finish his boat and get it launched before the whole project sinks under debt and futility? How will he manage his passionate connection with Elsie while maintaining his marriage and giving no pain to his patient, long-suffering wife? Answers eventually arrive, but not before some spirited narrative interludes: vivid scenes of hunting and "sticking" swordfish on the high seas, a sexual encounter that turns into an extended bout of mud wrestling, a hair-raising attempt to outsail a major hurricane...
Alain Briancon cannot find the time to paint the inside of his house in Fairfax County because he has to keep answering phone calls from volunteers who want to work with his wife Maria in the Virginia Organization to Keep Abortion Legal. But pro-choice sentiment is frustrated as far as Virginia's gubernatorial race is concerned. The Republican candidate, former state attorney general Marshall Coleman, is a strict antiabortionist who says that if he wins, he will appoint only pro-lifers to health and children's services positions. His Democratic opponent, Lieutenant Governor Douglas Wilder, is seeking to become...